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View the trailer and explore the website Since 1998, a small country with vast oil wealth but an impoverished populace has followed a resolutely revolutionary path. Its leader defies the established order of things, leading his people into a fight to change the world. Heroes of the past...

Milwaukee Black community supports jailed alderman By Bryan G. Pfeifer Milwaukee, Wis. http://www.workers.org/2007/us/milwaukee-0802/ Published Jul 26, 2007 12:40 AM More than 100 supporters of Black city Alderman Michael McGee Jr. packed the Coffee Makes You Black coffee shop for a weekday...

Theology Thursdays: The Legacy Of Albert Cleage (Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman) During the 1960s, many religious leaders, led by Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, sharply criticized the methods and advances claimed by the civil rights movement. By far the most vocal Christian minister advocating a...

Students Trade Bibles for Porn By Matt O'Conner http://www.xbiz.com/news/11518 SAN ANTONIO — A group of atheists at the University of Texas at San Antonio is putting a novel twist on the toys-for-guns programs run by many urban police departments. But instead of toys, they are handing out porn...

Contrary to popular belief I do not hate everything. Almost everything, but not everything. These posts are dedicated to those rare movies I didn’t hate and would even go so far as to recommend to others. This is a recommendation for those King of New York fans out there. Now I won’t...

As many as five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A quarter million or so have perished in Darfur, western Sudan. Both are abominations, genocides, crimes against humanity, but only Darfur rates coverage in the U.S. corporate media, action by the United States on the...

Gangster dress Q. Recently, Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory praised the strong police presence for July 4th downtown fireworks celebration, saying it prevented major problems. He said that "instead of many young kids setting the tone of intimidation and causing harm and disruptions, our police set...

(WebMD) More than 2 million people in the U.S. are infected with chlamydia and 250,000 have gonorrhea, according to a government prevalence estimate for the two sexually transmitted diseases. Rates of both STDs were disproportionately high among adolescents and African-Americans and among...

BEIJING — A rare open letter signed by 17 former top officials and conservative Marxist scholars ahead of a key party meeting accuses China's top leaders of steering the country in the wrong direction, pandering to foreigners, betraying the workers' revolution and jeopardizing social stability...

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Ruining movies for other people… it’s fun for the whole family! July 10th, 2007 · 64 Comments So I finally saw The Fugitive last night. http://cinemaslave.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ruining-movies-for-other-people-its-fun-for-the-whole-family/ Yeah, I know… you’ve just lost any lingering trace...

I recently watched the documentary "Winter Soldier" about the soldiers who returned from Vietnam and their horror stories of the atrocities they committed. One of the lines that stuck with me was common among the soldiers. Body count was used as a gauge of success. When soldiers would come...

The core misconceptions in the 'war on terror' By John Feffer In September 2002, Maher Arar was passing through JFK airport in New York. He was expecting a simple transit. A Syrian-born Canadian citizen and wireless technology consultant, Arar was traveling home to Ottawa after a vacation with...

Can’t help but laugh that when looking for recopies one is for: Amish Cream Pie 1/4 cup cornstarch 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups half-and-half 1/2 cup whole milk 8 tablespoons butter, cut into chunks and softened 1/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 9-inch baked pie crust Heat...

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Euro Hits New High Against U.S. Dollar Tuesday July 10, 4:54 pm ET By Jackie Farwell, AP Business Writer Euro Soars to New High Above $1.37 Amid Worries About U.S. Economy NEW YORK (AP) -- The euro shot to an all-time high against the U.S. dollar Tuesday on concerns about the American...

More elections? What do they think they are a democracy? Cuba sets date for municipal vote By Michael Voss BBC News, Havana http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6286890.stm Cuba's acting President, Raul Castro, has announced that municipal elections will be held on 21 October. This...

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We've got quite a few older or rather "mature" people on here doin the whole 9-5 with the family and a happy home. Drop your knowledge gained from experiences and help the inexperienced out when it comes to home ownership. Tips on: Dealing with banks/Obtaining loans Picking a realtor Home...

CRAWFORD, Texas - Cindy Sheehan, the slain soldier's mother whose attacks on President Bush made her a darling of the anti-war movement, has a new target: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Sheehan, who announced in late May that she was departing the peace movement, said she decided to run against...